Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
IT Conversations: 'technation'
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Dirk Hohndel - Intel and Open Source: Netbooks
Built for portability, netbooks may represent the first computers conceived from the outset with Linux in mind. Intels Dirk Hohndel describes the firms strategic vision for Open Source using the netbook OS Moblin as an example.
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Daniel Debow - How to Get Honest Feedback
How can you solicit honest feedback from friends and business associates? Rypple co-founder Daniel Debow says that his companys new service is the answer. Its quick, its easy, and its anonymous. Its true that online anonymity can often lead to trouble online. But Daniel Debow tells host Jon Udell th …
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Greg Papadopoulos - Citizen Engineer
Moira speaks with Greg Papadopoulos, co-author of Citizen Engineer: A Handbook for Socially Responsible Engineering. The book focuses on two topics that are becoming vitally important in the day-to-day work of engineers: eco engineering and intellectual property (IP).
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Eve Maler - User-Managed Access (UMA)
Eve Maler discusses her work on User-Managed Access (UMA). In addition to discussing the concept of UMA, she gives examples of its use, as well as her work with the User Managed Access Working Group at the Kantara Initiative and how UMA relates to Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM), p …
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Florent Stroppa - Creating New Opportunities from Android Openness
Mobile application developers usually groan at having to support yet another operating system, so in this eComm 2009 talk why does Voxmobilis Director of Product Management, Florent Stroppa, applaud the arrival of Android?
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Victoria Stodden - Reproducibility of Computational Science
If youre a writer, a musician, or an artist, you can use Creative Commons licenses to share your digital works. But how can scientists license their work for sharing? In this conversation, Victoria Stodden -- a fellow with Science Commons -- explains to host Jon Udell why scientific output is differ …
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Gordon Bell, Jim Gemmell - Total Recall
Moira talks with Gorden Bell and Jim Gemmell about what it means to digitally record everything in our lives. The authors of Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything discuss how new technologies allow average people to record their entire lives.
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Dr. Bill Cheliak - Environmental Effects on Genetics
Moira speaks with Dr. Bill Cheliak, Vice President for Business Development, Neurodyn about how the environment can affect genetics and contribute to disease.
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Episode 69 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff sit down with Peter Seibel to discuss his new book Coders At Work, the effect of listening to music while coding, and the future of programming books.
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Eric Lawrence - Fiddler
Microsofts Eric Lawrence describes Fiddler, his free Web Debugging tool that enables capture, replay, and modification of HTTP and HTTPS traffic from virtually any application.
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Michael Lopp - A Brief History of Software
In this OSCON presentation Michael Lopp, author of the blog Rands in Repose, takes a trip down memory lane to 1992, and brings a few lessons in software development back to the future. He discusses the well intentioned forces of evil that can make us stray from the path of tight coding, and how, in …
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Stefano Mazzocchi - Freebase
Much of the webs implicit connectedness is never made explicit because we refer to the same things in many different ways. In this conversation, Metawebs Stefano Mazzocchi explains to host Jon Udell how Freebase reconciles web namespaces to expose useful connections.
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Kathy Reichs - 209 Bones
Moira interviews Kathy Reichs, forensic anthropologist and author of the popular Bones detective series.
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Matt Drance - Cocoa Programming
Matt Drance of Bookhouse Software discusses Cocoa, Apples name for the collection of frameworks, APIs, and accompanying runtimes that make up the development layer of Mac OS X and also used for iPhone Apps. He reviews the process of developing for the iPhone, including some of the mistakes that soft …
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Christopher Allen - iPhone in Action: Web Development or SDK?
There are two distinct ways to develop applications for Apples iPhone, the top tech gadget of the year, with either web apps or native programs using the iPhone SDK. In this talk from the 2009 Emerging Communications Conference, Christopher Allen of iPhoneWebDev.com encourages developers to consider …
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Episode 68 - StackOverflow
Joel and Jeff discuss outsourced DNS, virtual machine "appliances", and programmers as library users versus library writers.
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Jonathan Littman, Marc Hershon - I Hate People
Moira interviews Jonathan Littman and Marc Hershon about their book I Hate People!: Kick Loose from the Overbearing and Underhanded Jerks at Work and Get What You Want Out of Your Job. In it they have selected and analyzed the ten most troublesome types of people likely to appear in the workplace.
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Eric Goldsmith - AOL Pagetest
Improving performance is impossible without good measurements, especially on a complex platform like the Web. In this presentation from 2008 Velocity Conference, Eric Goldsmith of AOL demonstrates their browser plug-in AOL Pagetest, which gathers and displays data about web requests and page loadin …
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John Geraci - DIY City: An Operating System for Cities
From tracking flu outbreaks to traffic updates a tremendous amount of information available within a city is open to exploitation by savvy citizens. Adapting the decentralized chaotic morass of the Internet to the modern city John Geraci discusses adapting rich data about the city through the open s …
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John Carter - Fire Your Boss and Start Consulting
There are many ways to go about consulting, but how do you do it, and how do you do it successfully? Engineer and consultant John Carter says most consulting companies fail because they can not attract the clients who need their services. Failed strategies include calling on their former associates, …
Tech Nation w/Moira Gunn
